I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?
I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?
You mean the one who is the only person to have any commits on GrapheneOS GitHub project? You know that, right? Or are you one of the thousands of sheeps that blindly trust without verifying security or evidence?
You’re right he’s still committing, however it’s easily verifiable he’s not the only one. Still I’ll give you that, since it seems Micay is quite active. I guess I am a “sheep that blindly trusts”, since I don’t have the skills to audit the code in this case. I will assume you are not such a sheep (otherwise why would you accuse someone else of being so?), so would you please enlighten me on the verifications you’ve done or the evidence you’ve found that makes you not trust the GOS project? On top of that. What do you trust for a mobile OS?
I do not want to insult you when I say “sheep”, however this amount of blindness among almost everyone is staggering. It pisses me off when FOSS enthusiasts say they are vigilant, but fall for the same marketing crap that non-FOSS corporate software users do. Why are people eating up all this gospel Micay and his mods invented?
I do not need expert skills to see one person is making commits to this AOSP fork on GitHub. The commit graph/tool shows that openly. I am probably not even half as good as many people, I consider myself dumb.
What do I trust? Calyx if you want one of these pre-configured custom ROMs for Pixels only, and Lineage or /e/ if you want more device support. They atleast do not lie about features and weasel around and ban critics by labelling them as “concern trolls”, “charlatans”, “neonazis” and so on.
I would recommend you first read this. Please read the paper by Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix and C, on why we should be able to trust the developer and NOT the code. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
Know that they lie to the extent of going around in tech YouTuber comment sections and claim they have $1M Cellebrite Israeli toolkits to verify grapheneOS is safe against bootloader attacks like Evil Maid. https://i.imgur.com/woNxPhx.jpg